£74 Million For A Painting ! |
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May 4 2012, 07:39 AM
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Check it out, some guy (or girl) paid £74 Million ($120 Million) for an original painting of 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch. It is a haunting and very famous piece of work but would you ever pay that much for a piece of art ? Even if you did have the money ?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/scream-sells-reco...-001754463.html 
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May 4 2012, 07:41 AM
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I'd sell my mother for that painting....ofcours i would buy her back later
This post has been edited by Bossie: May 4 2012, 07:42 AM |
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May 4 2012, 08:45 AM
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Never would pay that much money for anything. Debt for life!
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May 4 2012, 09:14 AM
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QUOTE (Bossie @ May 4 2012, 07:41 AM)  I'd sell my mother for that painting....ofcours i would buy her back later Haha, you like it then ? It is an amazing piece for sure  QUOTE (thefireball @ May 4 2012, 08:45 AM) Never would pay that much money for anything. Debt for life! However, I agree with Fireball, I'd never pay that much money for anything ! These are some paintings (by that, I mean prints) I'd love around my house.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starry_Night_Over_the_Rhone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caf%C3%A9...Arles,_at_Night |
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Maybe it's because I am not an art buff, but that's just plain stupid to me.
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May 4 2012, 10:35 AM
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The most we've paid for a painting was @£5000 for a work by Terry Frost (we've got a few by him) about 15 years ago. (I guess that's appreciated though since his death a few years ago.) It's hung on our bedroom wall for years and we still get great enjoyment from seeing it each day. What we're happy to pay is related to our disposable income though. If we had the money I'd happily pay millions for works by artists like Francis Bacon, Jean Miro and so on but we haven't so the closest I'll ever come to them is visiting galeries.
Ultimately 'value' is subjective and it may well be that this has been bought less as a piece of art and more as an investment. What is sad is that many valuable art works end up locked away from the public. Many of them are not even displayed in private collections but kept under lock and key as they're valuable investments... -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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May 4 2012, 10:52 AM
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I don't think I would pay that much for art.
However, any artwork by Zdzislaw Beksinski is something I would definitely fork my money over for. I wouldnt mind paying a few grand for some of his art. No other artist captures my imagination quite like him. He is a surrealist painter from Poland, and he became pretty famous for his grim artwork. He never titled a single piece of artwork either. Which a lot of people find strange. There is a museum in Poland dedicated to his work, and there is a structure built in the desert of Nevada called "The Beksinski Cross" I am going to visit "The Beksinski Cross" this summer. Which is something I am excited for. http://www.beksinski.pl/ -------------------- All the elders have fallen down...
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May 5 2012, 12:40 AM
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As you may know this is one of four such SCREAMS the artist created, only one of which can be seen outside a Museum and that's this one. I gotta say I was a bit shocked at the price but maybe Mark Zuckerberg (facebook) just got something for his den? Either way good score!
QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ May 4 2012, 02:39 AM) Check it out, some guy (or girl) paid £74 Million ($120 Million) for an original painting of 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch. It is a haunting and very famous piece of work but would you ever pay that much for a piece of art ? Even if you did have the money ? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/scream-sells-reco...-001754463.html |
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May 5 2012, 11:04 AM
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I like that painting. Not worth that IMHO.
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May 5 2012, 11:12 AM
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QUOTE (Fran @ May 5 2012, 11:04 AM) I like that painting. Not worth that IMHO. Yeah I'd be happy to buy just a print ! 
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